Tuesday, December 06, 2005

This Just In: Mom Not Cool!

Shocking, I know, but it was confirmed earlier this morning when the following conversation took place:

Playing with the kids in the living room, David was pretending to be a "rescue hero" and jumping and twirling about in hero fashion. I told him he was cool and he said "yeah, just like Daddy." Okay, I'll give him that. His dad is cool. Maybe not rescue hero cool, but certainly geek squad cool.

Upon hearing this, Sofia turned to me and emphatically placed her hand on her chest, saying, "Meeeeee!!!"

"Oh- are you cool too?" I asked."YAH!!" she cries."Just like Daddy?""YAH!!" even more excited now."Cool like Mommy?" I bat my eyes, waiting for her gleeful affirmation.

She just looks at me, almost sadly, hesitant to say anything. I can almost see the teenage Sofi rolling her eyes in exasperation. This toddler version of the girl is much kinder, though. She smiles a little, tilts her head to one side and says more quietly: "Da Da."

There you have it folks. Mom ain't cool. If an 18 month old can figure it out, anyone can.

Thanks, James. It must be difficult to view the main disciplinarian in the family as someone who's hip...either that or they figure anyone who wakes up looking like I do each morning could simply never in a million years hope to be "cool".

As a formerly cool dad, I can report to Ernesto that the higher the pedestal, the more bruising the inevitable fall. I suspect that being eye level with your kids on the cool scale is a gratifying and essential familial relationship.